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Macroeconomic volatility in reformed Latin America
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013553088
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Innovation Policy for Development: An Overview by Manuel Trajtenberg: Comments
Sanguinetti, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
This presentation comments on Manuel Trajtenberg¿s paper Innovation Policy for Development. The purpose of that paper … includes discussing innovation policy guidelines for developing countries and employing the Israeli experience to derive … lessons for growth-promoting innovation policies, among others. Comments arise from the main issues introduced by the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322757
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¿Hay un sesgo anti-laboral en los impuestos en América Latina?
Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Deisy - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Los impuestos a la nómina junto con los salarios mínimos han producido un notable encarecimiento de los costos laborales en América Latina desde los noventa. Puesto que, simultáneamente, las tasas de tributación de las empresas se han reducido, esta nota analiza si, como resultado, hay un...
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Inflation Targeting in Colombia, 2002-2012
Urrutia, Miguel; Hamann, Franz; Hofstetter, Marc - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
the experience of the Colombian Central Bank over the last decade, a period of consolidation and innovation of its IT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750273
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Housing Finance in Chile: Instruments, Actors, and Policies
Rebucci, Alessandro; Micco, Alejandro; Parrado, Eric; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The Chilean system of housing finance is a mixture of public and private elements that has arguably been very successful. This paper provides an up- to-date review of the main instruments, actors, and government policies of the Chilean system of housing finance. It concludes that, while the...
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Coping with Financial Crises: Latin American Answers to European Questions
Fernandez-Arias, Eduardo; Cavallo, Eduardo A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
cooperation will require innovation and political will. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010579073
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Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies for the Perfect Storm: The Case of The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago
Powell, Andrew; Rebucci, Alessandro; Minella, Andre; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This study provides a set of tools to analyze the monetary and exchange rate policy issues in the seven countries of the Inter-American Development Bank’s Caribbean region (The Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago). It then applies some of them to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554065
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The Multilateral Response to the Global Crisis: Rationale, Modalities, and Feasibility
Fernandez-Arias, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew; Rebucci, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
The paper reviews the case for a strong multilateral response to the global crisis in emerging markets (EMs). It discusses modalities and feasibility of intervention and its associated risks, depending on country circumstances of fiscal space and liquidity needs. The specific role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985548
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Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper uses simple regression techniques to make an initial assessment of the monetary damages caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008616870
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On the Role of Productivity and Factor Accumulation in Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Fernandez-Arias, Eduardo; Daude, Christian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of Latin America. The region’s development performance is...
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